It's one final hour of uncertainty after months of living
under the strain of it, when medical students hope for Plan A and sometimes end
up with Plan B -- not knowing in that gut-wrenching-envelope-opening-moment
that Plan B might be the best thing that ever happened to them. It's called Match
Day, where fourth-year medical students learn where they will spend the next
three to seven years of their lives in residency. It happens once a year at
Oregon Health & Sciences University and at medical schools throughout the
country. And it's one of many assignments I photographed over the last week or
so.

If the schedule looks a little thin it's because a couple of
bigger projects are in the works. They
involve the kind of journalism that requires deeper reporting, a lot of
negotiating and more time. Did I say more time? Indeed -- a lot of it.